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Crisis Of Allegiance! A Study of Dissent Among Jehovah's Witnesses. 4. In 1980, conservatives conducted a purge at Watchtower headquarters in Brooklyn, New York to remove moderate and liberal elements within the leadership. Amongthose excommunicated were Governing Body member Raymond Franz and other high ranking officials. A widespread paranoia regarding supposed "apostates" soon gripped the entire organization, as reflected by Watchtower publications at the time. In the ensuing witch-hunts, other prominent Jehovah's Witnesses were excommunicated including Dr. M. James Penton, a Canadian university professor and religious historian. These events are chronicalled in Franz's book Crisis of Conscience (Atlanta: Commentary Press, 1982) and Penton's Apocalypse Delayed. For additional accounts of these events see James A. Beverly, Crisis of Allegiance (Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Welch Publishing, 1987), Gary and Heather Botting, The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), Randy Watters, "The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society: The Critical Years 1975-1980," Free Minds Journal 16, no. 5 (1997): 4-8 and David Reed, Blood on the Alter: Confesssions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1996). (See footnotes at bottom of page here: http://www.premier1.net/~raines/palliative.html Crisis Of Allegiance download: Click the link below and when the next page appears scroll down to the bottom of the page and a small (red arrow) will point to the download link. http://www.sendspace.com/file/swm435 Cheers! Atlantis-
